Franden's First Pro Homer Lifts Jays to Victory
Dunedin, FL – Ryan Franden’s first professional homer was a go-ahead blast that lifted the Dunedin Blue Jays to a 5-4 win over the Palm Beach Cardinals on Friday night at TD Ballpark in game four of a six-game set. Dunedin pitching staff combined to allow only one earned run
Dunedin, FL – Ryan Franden’s first professional homer was a go-ahead blast that lifted the Dunedin Blue Jays to a 5-4 win over the Palm Beach Cardinals on Friday night at TD Ballpark in game four of a six-game set.
Dunedin pitching staff combined to allow only one earned run while striking out 11 Cardinals, and the Blue Jays bullpen did not allow a run across the ballgame’s final three frames.
KEY PERFORMERS
- RHP Carson Messina (4 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 4 H, 3 BB, 5 K) did not allow an earned run across four innings of work in his penultimate start of 2026.
- It’s the third start in his last five turns that Messina has now allowed an earned run.
- RHP Gavin Seebold (2 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 BB, 3 K) recorded his second professional save, firing shutout 8th and 9thinnings with three strikeouts.
- Across his first seven professional appearances, Seebold has allowed just one run across nine innings (1.00 ERA) with 18 strikeouts to one walk.
- 2B Ryan Franden (1-for-4, HR, 2 RBI, R) socked the go-ahead two-run homer in the 6th inning for his first professional long ball.
- Franden has a hit in five straight contests, over which he is 7-for-29 (.368) with three RBI.
- CF Blaine Bullard (2-for-4, 2B, BB) reached base three times and tallied his team-leading 28th multi-hit game of the season.
- Bullard has a hit in three straight and four of his last five.
- LF Rhylan Thomas (2-for-4, RBI, 2B) roped an RBI double in the 5th to put Dunedin on the board.
- Thomas has hit safely in each of his first four minor league rehab games, over which he’s 6-for-13 with two doubles and four RBI.